{"id":10652,"date":"2020-04-29T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2020-04-27T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T04:18:28","slug":"worse-than-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/29\/worse-than-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Worse Than COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/scientists-pinpoint-most-dangerous-place-in-the-history-of-planet-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from c|net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scientists pinpoint &#8216;most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A paleontologist says time travelers would not survive long in this predator-packed area of Africa 100 million years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profiles\/akooser\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Kooser<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=25qr20Ec7hg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you build your time machine, please do not set your destination for 100 million years ago in Morocco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An international team of scientists led by paleontologist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nizaribrahim.net\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nizar Ibrahim<\/a>&nbsp;of the University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Portsmouth in the UK conducted a wide-ranging survey of the creatures and geology of an area in southeastern Morocco called the Kem Kem Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveler would not last very long,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/news\/palaeontologists-reveal-the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-history-of-planet-earth\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ibrahim said in a University of Portsmouth release<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday. Some of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever discovered once roamed the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers published a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/article\/47517\/list\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">paper on their Kem Kem Group findings in the journal ZooKeys<\/a>\u00a0this week.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/news\/palaeontologists-reveal-the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-history-of-planet-earth\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Portsmouth called this<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;the first detailed and fully illustrated account of the fossil-rich escarpment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the Cretaceous, the area was home to rivers and packed with predators ranging from massive land-bound dinosaurs to flying pterosaurs. They had an abundance of prey to feed on. &#8220;This place was filled with absolutely enormous fish, including giant coelacanths and lungfish,&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/news\/palaeontologists-reveal-the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-history-of-planet-earth\" target=\"_blank\">said co-author David Martill<\/a>\u00a0from the University of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/scientists-pinpoint-most-dangerous-place-in-the-history-of-planet-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at c|net<\/a> ]\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from c|net Scientists pinpoint &#8216;most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth&#8217; A paleontologist says time travelers would not survive long in this predator-packed area of Africa 100 million years ago. by Amanda Kooser Once you build your time machine, please do not set your destination for 100 million years ago in Morocco.&nbsp; An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}